The Accountability Question

An interesting post today by Pastor Carl Trueman at Reformation21Blog.  If you have read many of his articles you should be familiar with Trueman’s perceptive insight into today’s problems in the “evangelical movement” and the mega-church.

Carl Trueman’s recent article speaks to the issue of dealing with potential problems affecting the evangelical community at large and by extension the local church before they become too great to control.

He refers to his earlier warnings against the current “cults of personality” in which people fail to speak against pastors who have built up followings of devotees who refuse to correct pastoral abuse.  His reference is to current mega-church leaders who amass great fortunes and power by fleecing the flock and using dubious means to promote and maintain their prominent positions. In principle his argument could also apply to those who want to maintain a similar position in a smaller venue.

Trueman states that when accountability was called for in the church “the critics were to be treated as the problem…”. And he states,  “part of me thinks that, if the early warnings had been seen as significant….perhaps things might be different today”.

Read the entire article HERE and make up your own mind: http://www.reformation21.org/blog/2014/03/celebrity-pastors-a-retrospect.php